Ross Jackson

Ross Jackson has a doctorate degree in applied management and decision sciences from Walden University, and a Master’s in applied economics and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Ohio University. He is an Assistant Professor of Business at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He is also a founding partner of Jacoulet, a consulting firm focused on analytics-based strategy development. He has over twenty years of experience as a Defense Analyst with the Department of the Air Force. He is the author or coauthor of several articles including: The Spectacle of Analysis: Analytics as Organizational Propaganda, (Forest Hills, New York: The Institute of General Semantics, 2016) and Following Instructions: Results and Implications from a Comparative Analysis of Air Force Instruction Corpora for Acquisition, Logistics, and Personnel, (Cincinnati, Ohio: INFORMS, 2018). His current research interests include linguistic and existential facets of the military-industrial complex and the intersectionality among analysis, data visualization and détournement. Dr. Jackson is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Responsible Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making.

Publications

Effective Strategies for Communicating Insights in Business
Ross Jackson, Amanda Reboulet. © 2021. 261 pages.
Because insights can be viewed as fragments of knowledge collected through experience and education, they are not easily communicated to organizational leaders. Successful...
Effective Communication Approaches for Decision Analytics: An Exploration of Strategies
Amanda Reboulet, Ross A. Jackson. © 2021. 19 pages.
Analysts ignore the context that shapes and constrains communication at their peril. The rhetorical context in which analytics is enacted influences the communicative approach....
Becoming Who You Are Through Authentic Organizational Communication
Ross Jackson. © 2021. 16 pages.
Business communication is comprised of standards designed for efficiency. Like commodities, official correspondences are often indistinguishable. Adherence to templates provides...
Ethics and Education: A Markov Chain Assessment of Civilian Education in Air Force Materiel Command
Matthew C. Ledwith, Ross A. Jackson, Amanda M. Reboulet, Thomas P. Talafuse. © 2021. 13 pages.
Education is a frequent area of concern when attempting to improve organizational performance. In this paper, absorbing Markov chains were used to assess education levels of...
Philosophical Sediments: AI-Enabled Translation and Analysis of Chinese Business Ethics
Ross A. Jackson, Brian L. Heath, Paul Hartman, Shweta Kumar. © 2021. 17 pages.
Ethics rest on philosophical groundings. This holds implications for international business as the philosophers selected as the basis of ethics are informed by culture. Business...
Ethics and Education: A Markov Chain Assessment of Civilian Education in Air Force Materiel Command
Matthew C. Ledwith, Ross A. Jackson, Amanda M. Reboulet, Thomas P. Talafuse. © 2019. 13 pages.
Education is a frequent area of concern when attempting to improve organizational performance. In this paper, absorbing Markov chains were used to assess education levels of...
Nietzsche's Constructions of Power: Implications for International Business Ethics
Ross A. Jackson, Amanda M. Reboulet. © 2019. 17 pages.
Power is inextricably linked to business rhetoric and praxis. Given Nietzsche's prominence in modern and postmodern thought, his constructions of power are relevant for...